Definition of "basin" in Anglais

noun

1. A wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall.

2. (obsolete) A shallow bowl used for a single serving of a drink or liquidy food.

   • 1893, Gilbert Parker, “The March of the White Guard,” in Tavistock Tales, New York: Tait Sons & Co., p. 27, Gaspé Toujours is drinking a basin of tea, and Jeff Hyde is fitfully dozing by the fire.

3. A depression, natural or artificial, containing water.

4. (geography) An area of land from which water drains into a common outlet; drainage basin.

5. (geography) A shallow depression in a rock formation, such as an area of down-folded rock that has accumulated a thick layer of sediments, or an area scooped out by water erosion.

verb

1. To create a concavity or depression in.

2. To serve as or become a basin.

3. To shelter or enclose in a basin.